RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 70 (HB 162) 2021 Regular Session Deshotel
Existing constitution (Art. X, §1(A)) provides that state civil service includes all persons
holding offices and positions of trust or employment in the employ of the state, or any
instrumentality thereof, or any joint state-federal, state-parochial, or state-municipal agency.
Excludes members of the state police service and persons holding offices and positions of
any municipal board of health or local governmental subdivision.
Existing law (R.S. 40:539(C)(8)) generally provides that all employees of housing authorities
are in the classified state civil service except for authority members, the executive director,
one other employee whom the authority designates, and professional employees employed
on a contract basis.
Existing law provides that the housing authorities in New Orleans, Cottonport, Denham
Springs, Oil City, Lafayette, Monroe, Shreveport, and Kenner and the East Baton Rouge
Parish Housing Authority shall not be considered instrumentalities of the state for purposes
of Const. Art. X, §1(A) and that employees of the authorities are not in the state civil service.
New law adds the Simmesport Housing Authority to the list of authorities not considered
instrumentalities of the state for purposes of Const. Art. X, §1(A) and provides that authority
employees are not in state civil service.
Effective August 1, 2021.
(Adds R.S. 40:539(C)(8)(k))